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Pakistan

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

467 c130-41 

Session

2007-08

Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

David Miliband | 467 c135-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his comments and support. He is absolutely right that there are no gr...

Michael Moore | 467 c135 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary's statement and, like the shadow Foreign Secretary and the Chairman ...

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David Miliband | 467 c136 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend has been a consistent and doughty champion of both Pakistan and the British com...

Gerald Kaufman | 467 c136 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that those who have had a close and warm relationship with Pakistan...

David Miliband | 467 c137 (Link to this contribution) We should all be concerned about nuclear installations in all nuclear power countries. We have seen ...

Lord Swire | 467 c136-7 (Link to this contribution) What is the Foreign Secretary's reading of the part played by the Inter-Services Intelligence in Pak...

David Miliband | 467 c137 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend puts it very well. He is right that there is DFID funding not only for education but ...

Khalid Mahmood | 467 c137 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement and for much that it contains. If Pakistan is to play...

David Miliband | 467 c137-8 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. and learned Gentleman has taken a long interest in this issue. The relati...

Malcolm Rifkind | 467 c137 (Link to this contribution) I strongly support the Foreign Secretary's emphasis on the need for Pakistan to move towards democra...

Ann Cryer | 467 c138 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend for his statement; I know that many of my constituents will also apprec...

Brian Iddon | 467 c139 (Link to this contribution) On an earlier occasion when there were difficulties in Pakistan we considerably reduced the number o...

David Miliband | 467 c139 (Link to this contribution) I do not believe that any member of the Government—including my predecessors, one of whom has just w...

Baroness Teather | 467 c139 (Link to this contribution) The reaction of many of my Pakistani constituents has ranged from intense anger to acute embarrassme...

David Miliband | 467 c138 (Link to this contribution) I am sure the whole House is pleased to know that those who represent the beating heart of the Labou...

Chris Bryant | 467 c140 (Link to this contribution) Do we not have to be unambiguously in favour of democracy rather than slightly ambivalent about dict...

David Miliband | 467 c139-40 (Link to this contribution) We shall come to the finer distinctions of dictatorship when obituaries need to be written. My conce...

Lord Cormack | 467 c139 (Link to this contribution) While I wholly endorse the Foreign Secretary's general approach—and also the wise words of my right ...

David Miliband | 467 c139 (Link to this contribution) When I spoke to the high commissioner at the weekend just as these events were taking place, one of ...

David Miliband | 467 c140 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises an important point. Let me expand on what he said about the independent electo...

Julian Brazier | 467 c140 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary has acknowledged some of the extreme pressures that have led to these unwise d...

David Miliband | 467 c140 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman's point might have had more purchase some years ago. I have been encouraged over ...

David Miliband | 467 c141 (Link to this contribution) One of the striking things over the last three days has been the fact that peace and order have been...

Tobias Ellwood | 467 c141 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary described the situation as both dangerous and fast-moving. Those are powerful ...

David Miliband | 467 c141 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that any such decisions are easy. Careful judgments must be made. There is a range of...

Richard Ottaway | 467 c140 (Link to this contribution) Further to the views expressed by other Opposition Members, does the Foreign Secretary accept that t...

Lord Jackson of Peterborough | 467 c141 (Link to this contribution) The events in Pakistan over the past few weeks are potentially the most potent threat to world stabi...

David Miliband | 467 c133-4 (Link to this contribution) I thank the right hon. Gentleman for the content, tenor and tone of his comments and questions. Let ...

Mike Gapes | 467 c134-5 (Link to this contribution) May I endorse what the Foreign Secretary has said, and echo his concerns, which will be shared by ma...

David Miliband | 467 c135 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with authority on this matter, as Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He i...

David Miliband | 467 c130-2 (Link to this contribution) With permission, I would like to make a statement on the situation in Pakistan, which I am sure the ...

Lord Hague of Richmond | 467 c132-3 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Foreign Secretary for making that timely statement. It is a crucial time for Pakistan an...

David Miliband | 467 c141 (Link to this contribution) I do not want to introduce too high a note of discord at this stage of our discussions, but five or ...

Subjects

Elections Emergency powers Law and order Pakistan Terrorism Violence Civil disorder

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